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Great Tastes: Cooking (and Eating) from Morning to Midnight: A Cookbook
Founders of popular website The New Potato mix food with lifestyle in this trendy, healthy cookbook: funny anecdotes, celebrity run-ins, and a healthy serving of fashion. Sisters Danielle and Laura Kosann have always loved cooking and eating out. But for them, it was never just about the food. It also meant the outfits they wore to dinner, the decor of the restaurant, and the guest list at their dinner party. Actually, food permeated every aspect of their lives. With inherent interests in fashion, design, media, and celebrity, they realized nobody was ever looking at these categories through the lens of food. Why weren’t people being asked about what they were eating the way they were being asked about their style, their careers, or their dating lives?
In launching the website, Danielle and Laura not only got to talk about food all the time, but they also collected a trove of hilarious experiences in brushing elbows with celebrities from all walks of life. Now, their debut cookbook brings together those antics and anecdotes with 85 original recipes that anyone can make, as long as they’re hungry and have a kitchen. Lime-Blueberry Pancakes? Stack ’em. Sweet Pea Carbonara? Give it a twirl. Then finish the night off with a Bourbon Chai. Pull up a chair, have a bite, and get ready for some great stories on the side.
In launching the website, Danielle and Laura not only got to talk about food all the time, but they also collected a trove of hilarious experiences in brushing elbows with celebrities from all walks of life. Now, their debut cookbook brings together those antics and anecdotes with 85 original recipes that anyone can make, as long as they’re hungry and have a kitchen. Lime-Blueberry Pancakes? Stack ’em. Sweet Pea Carbonara? Give it a twirl. Then finish the night off with a Bourbon Chai. Pull up a chair, have a bite, and get ready for some great stories on the side.
224 pages, Hardcover
Published April 10, 2018
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August 22, 2020
The Kosann sisters' new cookbook wreaks of Alison Roman's "Nothing Fancy" — and we all know how much I enjoyed that one. The difference? This is pretentiousness without the veil of humility or approachability, and that, somehow, makes it palatable. But, oh, the essays. Skip the essays.
Style: boujie-casual cuisine with the occasional long-winded narrative about a brush with Martha Stewart or Kris Jenner
Sections: Morning, Midday, Evening, Late Night
Recipes with photos: 46 of the 85 recipes had accompanying photos, or about 54 percent
Pros: Much like Ms. Roman's cookbook (almost identical, in fact — case in point: compare the cookbook covers), this one is loaded with stunning food photography, and it makes me want to eat everything. While the sisters could have gone off the deep-end with gaudy ingredients, many recipes feature common pantry staples elevated for sophisticated presentation.
Cons: The narrative has an air of intimacy and grandeur that gratesduring a global pandemic actually, maybe at any time. "Here, read about the time we made grind-your-own peanut butter as a thank-you gift for Katie Couric." It feels a little like force-feeding.
No, thank you: Eggplant tacos with pico de gallo (Runny pico with ho-hum grilled eggplant? The flavors were almost there, but the texture combo missed the mark. There just wasn't much to these plant-based tacos.), warm zucchini noodle salad with peanut sauce (No one needs to spiralize a carrot.), kale avocado Caesar with pecorino crumbles (Crispy pan-fried pecorino? Heck yes. Dip-consistency avocado dressing with Dijon and Worcestershire? No, thank you.)
More, please: Soy sauce-rubbed grilled steak with tomatoes (This recipe was simple, flavorful, and memorable. Who knew soy sauce and garlic could impart such depth?) and cardamom-pistachio peach crisp (I love a good crisp, but this crumble was truly exceptional with the addition of cardamom, pistachios, and coconut.)
Style: boujie-casual cuisine with the occasional long-winded narrative about a brush with Martha Stewart or Kris Jenner
Sections: Morning, Midday, Evening, Late Night
Recipes with photos: 46 of the 85 recipes had accompanying photos, or about 54 percent
Pros: Much like Ms. Roman's cookbook (almost identical, in fact — case in point: compare the cookbook covers), this one is loaded with stunning food photography, and it makes me want to eat everything. While the sisters could have gone off the deep-end with gaudy ingredients, many recipes feature common pantry staples elevated for sophisticated presentation.
Cons: The narrative has an air of intimacy and grandeur that grates
No, thank you: Eggplant tacos with pico de gallo (Runny pico with ho-hum grilled eggplant? The flavors were almost there, but the texture combo missed the mark. There just wasn't much to these plant-based tacos.), warm zucchini noodle salad with peanut sauce (No one needs to spiralize a carrot.), kale avocado Caesar with pecorino crumbles (Crispy pan-fried pecorino? Heck yes. Dip-consistency avocado dressing with Dijon and Worcestershire? No, thank you.)
More, please: Soy sauce-rubbed grilled steak with tomatoes (This recipe was simple, flavorful, and memorable. Who knew soy sauce and garlic could impart such depth?) and cardamom-pistachio peach crisp (I love a good crisp, but this crumble was truly exceptional with the addition of cardamom, pistachios, and coconut.)
December 3, 2018
Ugh, this one mostly just annoyed me. Super text-heavy, super name-droppy, super...I dunno. I just found everything about it off-putting, including the photography. I guess maybe I just don't get it. Or have the patience for it. Or something. That said, some of the vegetarian recipes do sound pretty good.
June 17, 2018
Not sure I could make any of these recipes work, or find some of the ingredients, but the pictures in this book were great!
August 20, 2018
Entitlement, much? These authors are vapid, name dropping, and self aggrandizing. The worse kind of quote unquote millennials.
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